About Us
The Miami Group provides a very active community for our members. We are active on the local, state and national level of conservation efforts, community outreach and education, political work and outdoor activities.
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Our Mission Statement
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Explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth. |
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Practice and promote the responsible use of the earth's ecosystems and resources. |
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Educate and enlist humanity to protect and restore the quality of the natural and human environment. |
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Use all lawful means to carry out these objectives. |
History and General Information
In 1892, John Muir founded the Sierra Club out of a love for the wild places of the Yosemite and the Sierra mountains of California - national treasures that even then were threatened. Today, the Sierra Club follows the traditions of its founders by promoting an appreciation of the outdoors through explorations and outings, by vigorously working to protect our natural places. As our second century begins, it is not just wilderness, but our every day environment, the health of the Earth itself, that needs appreciation and protection.
The Sierra Club's members are more than 750,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, we work together to protect our communities and the planet. The Club is America's oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
We have chapters covering every corner of the country, the Sierra Club is in the forefront of the United States conservation efforts.
 The Miami Group is the southwestern Ohio branch of the Ohio Chapter, and is named for the two Miami rivers that empty into the Ohio. The Sierra Club grass root efforts began in the 60's
to protect an area south of Ohio, a kentucky icon called The Red River Gorge. The "Gorge" was not well known until a controversy in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when environmentalists fought a proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for a $34 million, 5,000-acre impoundment of the North Fork of the Red River. Opponents, Sierra Club and locals, of the proposed dam were encouraged by Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, whose well-publicized hike in the gorge helped to rally support. In October 1975 the dam proposal was stopped by Gov. Julian Carroll (1974-79) and in 1976, 25,630 acres of the unique area were given federal protective status as a national geological area.
With membership near 6,5000+, we are a diverse group of conservationist sand lovers of the outdoors. We have a strong outings program, and popular "innings," our monthly meetings that feature speakers on a variety of topics.
Our outings program sponsors more than 300 outings a year, including hiking, backpacking, car camping, biking, canoeing, kayaking, skiing, family events, and service projects. Outings range from easy twilight hikes in Mt. Airy Forest to ambitious treks in the Smokies. There is no cost for most outings, and the schedule is published every other month in our newsletter, Miami Happenings. Outdoor skills schools teach the basics needed to become proficient in backpacking, river canoeing and kayaking. Through the Inner City Outings program, Sierra Club volunteers provide outdoor adventures for inner city youths. As a result, these young people discover that beauty of wild lands and acquire new skills that build confidence and self-esteem.
We work to protect the wild areas that we enjoy on outings. The protection of the Red River Gorge are in Kentucky was an early campaign of the Miami Group. We continue to work for parks and green spaces, wetlands, and clean rivers. But it is not only these wild areas that concern us. We also work on issues that affect everyone's quality of life, such as energy conservation, global warming, recycling, toxins, air pollution, and urban sprawl.
As a group, we work on these issues locally and through the Sierra Club's extraordinary statewide and national grassroots organization. At all levels, the club aims to educate the public and change attitudes, to affect legislation, and to elect officials who support our stand on issues that affect the earth.
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